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November 12, 2011For the past week, Tabernacle has been in residency at El Graner in Barcelona, a brand new space run by Mercat de les Flors where we perform this week. El Graner is in a refurbished Phillips lightbulb factory and we’ve … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentDancing at Tove Hirth’s sculpture exhibition
September 18, 2011Tove Hirth and I have been friends since we met at Pearson College in Canada in 1987. I think we both discovered our art forms at Pearson, me dancing in the Theo Dombrowski’s Ukrainian Dance Group (and as I write … read more…
Posted in Blog | 1 CommentRua Red: Bodies and Buildings film exhibition
September 12, 2011The facilities of Rua Red arts centre in Tallaght have been a discovery for me. I’ve spent a week there mentoring the Dancer in Residence for South Dublin County Council, Louise Costelloe and also installing an exhibition of my films … read more…
Posted in Blog | 2 CommentsTabernacle at the Kilkenny Arts Festival
August 10, 2011Performing in the Kilkenny Arts Festival has been the start of working out how Tabernacle continues beyond its initial performances in Dublin last May. It was my first visit to the Festival and it’s wonderful to see how a beautiful city welcomes a wide range of art forms. It’s been a very positive experience to have been programmed to present the work again and I’m very grateful to Tom Creed for having been willing to take that programming decision before Tabernacle was was even made. His confidence has ensured that the work can build a momentum of interest in the audience and hopefully ensure a longer life for Tabernacle. read more…
Posted in Blog | 2 CommentsGlenstal Abbey
July 16, 2011I hadn’t been at Glenstal Abbey since I was 14 and I cracked my cheekbone playing rugby for my school against the Glenstal school team. I’ve just spent two days this week participating in a workshop at the abbey that foregrounded my body again? The workshop had been advertised as focusing on Music, Mysticism, Religious Imagination and Ritual but by the time I got there, it had, with a generosity and openness that I admire in the Abbot Patrick Hederman, transformed into an exploration of the body and religion. Though there was a lot of thoughtful discussion, the workshop placed art – music, visual and choreographic – at the heart of expression.
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Dance/Body at the Crossroads of Culture
June 20, 2011I had feared, following my knee injury, that I might not perform again myself and that this process of passing my material over to these dancers was a way of dispersing my dancing self forever. However, this enforced pause has revealed how much I want to perform and fortunately my knee is recovering so it should be possible. It is likely to be a different kind of performing in the future so this Irish body is still a work in progress, still being made by experiences such as this conference where meeting at the crossroads of cultures teaches me new things that I hope I can continue to process in my work. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTabernacle: a tangent
June 8, 2011“So much of the best contemporary work is described as “difficult” or “experimental”, as if you needed superendurance or specialized knowledge to make your way through it. Really, all you need is an open mind — this doesn’t mean you’ll end up liking it, or that you should — and, more important, you need the willingness to spend some time truly looking at what’s in front of you, just as artists take the time to make it” Claudia Rocco NYT read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTabernacle: Production photos
June 6, 2011Some beautiful shots of Tabernacle by Jonathan Mitchell
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTabernacle: working with Sarah Browne
June 3, 2011There are many ways in which Sarah Browne influenced the making of Tabernacle. read more…
Posted in Blog | 1 CommentTabernacle: what people are saying
May 31, 2011It’s too soon for me to write about the last weeks of Tabernacle rehearsals and the performances. But since the project has always been about openness and eliciting feedback it seems right to record and acknowledge what people have been saying in reviews, blogs, emails and facebook posts. read more…
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